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Czech Mate for Anheuser-Busch

A-B, King of Beers, announced yesterday that it's making friends with the Czech brewer Budejovicky Budvar, a staunch and longtime foe.

No, the two companies have not put to rest the dozens of pending trademark cases over the name "Budweiser" -- which Budvar claims, owing to its production since 1895 in the Czech town of Budweis, but which Anheuser-Busch trademarked first. (Read more about this dispute, and the place-based labeling notion of terroir at its heart, here.)